 | Fanny Kemble - 1878 - 352 pages
...neither have I ever presented myself before an audience without a shrinking feeling of reluctance, or withdrawn from their presence without thinking the...undergone unhealthy, and the personal exhibition odious. Nevertheless, I sat me down to supper that night with my poor, rejoicing parents well content, God... | |
 | Fanny Kemble - 1879 - 1274 pages
...neither have I ever presented myself before an audience without a shrinking feeling of reluctance, or withdrawn from their presence without thinking the...undergone unhealthy, and the personal exhibition odious. Nevertheless, I sat me down to supper that night with my poor, rejoicing parents well content, God... | |
 | 1879 - 794 pages
...neither have I ever presented myself before an audience without a shrinking feeling of reluctance, or withdrawn from their presence without thinking the excitement I had undergone unhealthy, and the exhibition odious." Elsewhere she speaks of her trade as " an avocation which I never either liked... | |
 | 1879 - 812 pages
...neither have I ever presented myself before an audience without a shrinking feeling of reluctance, or withdrawn from their presence without thinking the excitement I had undergone unhealthy, and the exhibition odious." Elsewhere she speaks of her trade as " an avocation which I never either liked... | |
 | Hiram Collins Haydn - 1880 - 172 pages
...neither have I ever presented myself before an audience without a shrinking feeling of reluctance, or withdrawn from their presence without thinking the...undergone unhealthy, and the personal exhibition odious." Miss Kemble's position in regard to the stage was exceptional in many favorable respects, not the least... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1880 - 434 pages
...unworthy of a man, a business unworthy of a woman. Neither have I ever presented myself before an audience without a shrinking feeling of reluctance, nor withdrawn...from their presence without thinking the excitement 1 had undergone unhealthy and the personal exhibition odious " When she declares it " a business unworthy... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1881 - 424 pages
...unworthy of a man, a business unworthy of a woman. Neither have I ever presented myself before an audience without a shrinking feeling of reluctance, nor withdrawn...undergone unhealthy and the personal exhibition odious," When she declares it " a business unworthy of a woman," Fanny Kemble utters the thought of the purest... | |
 | 1882 - 598 pages
...neither have I ever presented myself before an audience without a shrinking feeling of reluctance, or withdrawn from their presence without thinking the...undergone unhealthy, and the personal exhibition odious.' Both before and after this account of her Jr/mf she digresses into a variety of what may be called... | |
 | Josiah Woodward Leeds - 1884 - 96 pages
...further says, " have I presented myself before an audience without a shrinking feeling of reluctance, or withdrawn from their presence without thinking the...undergone unhealthy and the personal exhibition odious." In endeavoring to account (after her public appearance at Drury Lane) for the origin of the deep impression... | |
 | Robert L. Harford - 1885 - 304 pages
...neither have I ever presented myself before an audience without a shrinking feeling of reluctance; withdrawn from their presence without thinking the...excitement I had undergone unhealthy, and the personal exhibitions odious." "A business which in incessant excitement and factitious emotion seems to me unworthy... | |
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I have never lost one iota of my own intense delight in the act of rendering Shakespeare's creations ; yet neither have I ever presented myself before an audience without a shrinking feeling of reluctance, or withdrawn from their presence without thinking... 
